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Mr. Obama criticized frequently during the debate for what he said were distortions of his views and record by the former president.
I think critisize A for NP is a correct structure, so he said means Obama said.
If he said means Clinton said, for clause has a complete sentence then it is grammarically wrong, in my opinion.
Or is this sentence, which has critisize A for SVC, structure totally correct?
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Where did you get it? The original paragraph is quite different from what you quoted when you look at it in its entirety.
Mr. Obama was as heated and intense as he has been at any debate
over the last year. At times, he appeared angry and close to expressing
it at Mrs. Clinton — and also at her husband, Bill Clinton, whom Mr.
Obama criticized frequently during the debate for what he said were
distortions of his views and record by the former president.
“I’m here,” Mrs. Clinton said, “not my husband.”
Mr.
Obama snapped, “I can’t tell who I’m running against sometimes.” At
several other points, he used the phrase “Senator Clinton and President
Clinton” to re-enforce his view that he is facing off against a
decades-old Clinton machine.
It's from the New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/22/us/politics/22dems.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper&oref=slogin